auth_smb8

Usage

Overview

This program does authentication for nnrpd against an SMB server. It passes the received username and password to server for validation in the specified SMB domain. A backup server may optionally be supplied; if it is missing, only server is used.

If authentication is successful, the original username is returned as the authentication identity. Brief errors, including incorrect password and failure contacting the server, are logged.

Examples

The following readers.conf(5) fragment grants access to users who can authenticate against an SMB server:

    auth windows {
        auth: "auth_smb pdc.example.com bdc.example.com USERS"
        default-domain: "users.example.com"
    }

    access internal {
        users: "*@users.example.com"
        newsgroups: example.*
    }

Access is granted to the example.* groups after successful authentication.